Akai DD1500 User Manual page 182

18 - UTILITIES - RS422 - AUTO CONFORM
If the EDL specifies that edits were done on the VTR's digital audio tracks, you should set
the same up in the DIGITAL TRACK MAPPING page. In the EDL SETUP page, press
DIGITAL. You will see this screen display:
Functionally, it is identical to the ANALOGUE TRACK MAPPING page.
Now that we have set up how EDL tracks will be mapped to tracks in our notional invisible
clipboard, we must set up which actual tracks the cues will appear on by selecting the
required DD1500 tracks for edit.
1/N
9
If we required the cues to end up on DD1500 tracks exactly as per the digital track
mapping table above, we would select DD1500 tracks 1,2,3,4 and 16 for edit. Import
would then put the cues on those tracks. However, if we were to select DD1500 tracks
5,6,7,8 and 9 for edit, import would then put D1 edits to 5, D2 to 6, D3 to 7, D4 to 8 and V
to 9.
This may all seem over complicated but it does allow for great flexibility as it allows you to
re-assign edits to tracks on the DD1500 as you like. For example, you may want to re-
arrange all the edits onto tracks that are more in keeping with the way you work. Perhaps
some dialogue has been edited on A1 and A2 and other dialogue has been done on A3
and A4 but you want to swap those so that the dialogue on A1/A2 goes to tracks 7 and 8
and the dialogue on A3/A4 gets placed on tracks 5 and 6 on the DD1500. Without this
flexible track assignment function, you would have to force the A1/A2 cues to be
conformed onto tracks 5 and 6 and the A3/A4 cues onto tracks 7 and 8 and then
somehow swap them around after they have been conformed into the DD1500.
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2/O 3/P 4/Q
10 11
RECORD/EDIT
5/R 6/S
12
1 3
7/T 8/U
14 15 16
Version 2.00 - March, 1996